Posted on 11/30/2021 8:08:01 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
Thinking we should check in to see how things are going with the vax mandates for jobs.
Specifically, those who don’t want a jab.
Are you in conundrums from this? Possibly losing your job? Forcing you to come up with exemptions, or take testing that’s a big hassle, all so you can stay at work?
What’s happening? How might you deal with it?
I think it is safe to say all employers are faced with the possibility of not staying in business if they fire enough of their employees.
Keeping a federal contract is problematic if your company goes out of business trying to comply.
Unlike government agencies, most private companies NEED all of the people they have on duty.
Having heard today a federal judge has stopped the feds from mandating federal contractors insist their employees get jabbed, I assume there is a widespread acknowledgment the federal government itself will be shut down if all federal contractors cannot keep operating.
I read that a major shipbuilding contractor for the Navy had to rescind its mandates or stop building U.S. Navy ships as too many of their workers were going to quit.
The U.S. military cannot operate without a vast network of contracted civilian companies. If enough of their employees are fired or quit, the military runs out of fuel, bullets, food to feed the troops, uniforms, toilet paper and all manner of supplies IN A HURRY ! Their aircraft are built by contractors so none will be completed for possible combat use. Even a huge amount of fixed and rotary wing military aircraft maintenance is done by civilian contractors.
The ugly truth is now undeniable...American government itself comes to a halt if the mandate insanity is forced to continue.
Number one, WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO BE HASSLED WITH THIS? EVERY WEEK? Come on.
2nd, how do I know constant swabbing won’t wreck the mucosal barrier and introduce other infections, in a manner not usually dealt with?
And even if I can gather a bunch of saliva tests…why should I have to go through all that effort?
BTW, who is paying for all these “free” tests…and vaccines?
There have been a lot of headlines lately about Big Pharma not believing that their Notavaxes will do anything against the Omicron variant and that it will take 100 days for them to come up with a Notavax for it.
So, really then, no one is fully vaccinated.
The boosters won’t work, despite what the CDC says about getting boosters. The CDC is contradicted by the drug companies themselves.
So, more questions to ask companies about the mandates they want to enforce, as well as asking them why they want to enforce mandates that keep getting overruled by judges.
Another question to ask is why only those not vaccinated with the Notavax have to test when Lebron James is vaxxed and had to test regularly and tested positive and now must sit out games.
At least companies should make their white employees who are vaxxed test regularly in solidarity with James and to show they are not racist.
My company is waiting for the courts.
My husband has to do the weekly test.
I had some concern because I work for a very large IT company with government contracts. However, the company HQ is in Texas, and the vast majority of them, including EVERYONE on my team works from home 100% of the time. I have never been within 300 miles of my co-workers since moving to Phoenix.
These factors have given me some measure of safety. Also, since we are in operations, it would be very risky indeed to risk even a modest percentage of IT employees simultaneously.
The company has been silent.
My husband did it back in spring. Long before real thought of force. But he’s not so sure about the boosters.
What kind of weekly test?
Don’t let THEM do the test swabs, they can injure you (maybe intentionally).
I'll put some words down on a religious exemption form, but I already have a buddy who wants me to come onboard with his company so ... screw 'em! In my case they need me more than I need them.
I guess I pretty much fired them for refusing to recognize my natural immunity. Zero regrets.
My finances are good so I'm in no hurry to get back to work especially the way things are going but I have some nice opportunities that I really can't pass up.
Life has really never been better.
I’m just trying to save you your job. But don’t let them be the ones to push the swab up your nasal cavity. THAT I would balk at. If over time you feel that it is injurious to your nasal cavity, then stop. Let them fire you. You tried to do it their way until it was unworkable. You may eventually have legal grounds for compensation.
Make them fire you and then jump ship. You may have legal grounds later for compensation.
I got the threat talk this week. If no vaccination, expect layoff, firing, reduced salary, compensation.TBD. But still could you do all the end year contracts? (For the next guy who comes after you?)I said no I cannot tell you I’m gong to be vaccinated as I had a big case this summer. Put it in writing by Friday what you are asking for, and what are the repercussions if I don’t, and I will review my new compensation plan before I do any of the work for your benefit.
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Great response. I’m curious to hear how they’re going to react.
I work for a Federal contractor, and I will likely be placed on unpaid leave on Dec 8.
Which is fine. I can live off the dividends from my stock holdings, not to mention the money I have in savings from selling two houses. My only debt is my mortgage.
Long term, I expect that I will move the hell out of Northern Virginia. I really do not like this area. I have been here for 34 years and there is less and less of a reason for me to stay as the years go on. I am only here because I moved here with my parents, one of whom has already passed away. I have enough equity in my house that I could sell it and pay cash for a house in a lower cost of living area, with the added bonus that I will likely to be able to find an IT job that isn’t a Federal contract (difficult or impossible in Northern Virginia, where EVERYONE sucks off the Federal teat).
So yea, I have a plan.
I retired because I would have been put on unpaid suspension.
Of the 60 people in my department, only two others left rather than get jabbed.
I’m mostly retired and what little work I do have is not affected at present.
My son’s fiance is going to lose her job and her enrollment in school. She has autoimmune issues and doesn’t feel comfortable with the jab. But her doctors won’t sign a medical exemption. She’s hoping she can find another doctor who will help with the exemption.
I assume you’re a fed employee. It seems this stay again only applies to fed workers?
Undoubtedly my local-gov related org is somehow getting fed dollars, but I doubt they feel beholden to comply with a court once the tiger was out.
When the government takes control over everything, that is communism.
The USA then becomes the USSR 2.0.
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